• Draw Madrid-City and Atlético-Liverpool, star duels
  • Naples-Barcelona.Messi, in the cradle of Maradona

The Rock & Roll by Jürgen Klopp against the military march of Diego Simeone . The vertigo of Salah, Mané and Firmino against the density of Giménez, Felipe, Thomas or Koke . A team that always attacks against one that (almost) always defends . One model against another. A tremendous tie in search of the quarterfinals. Atlético de Madrid measures Liverpool, the current European champion, in a terrifying confrontation .

Only four times have these two teams been seen in Europe. In the group stage of the 2008/2009 Champions League , both matches were resolved with a one-way tie, and two years later, in the semifinals of the Europa League of the 2009/2010 academic year .

In the first leg, the team of Quique Sánchez Flores won 1-0, and in the return, played under the traditional, and exciting, atmosphere of Anfield , a goal from Forlán to pass the disappeared José Antonio Reyes rescued Atlético in the minute 102 , because the game went to extra time. A few weeks later, Atlético would raise the title by winning (2-1) Fulham with two goals from the Uruguayan.

No signings

It is, therefore, a beautiful memory for the Simeone team, which, attending only to reality, faces, perhaps, the great favorite to revalidate the title. Of course, focused as it is in the Premier League (where he is a leading leader, with 10 points over the second, the Leicester, and 14 over the City ), that great goal may leave him depleted in Europe. In fact, he had to achieve his classification for eighths on the last day.

There are no major variations in Liverpool compared to last year. His main danger is still dizzying transitions. Actually, the eleven type is exactly the same as the previous course, and they have not made signings. The famous trident (Mané, Salah, Firmino) has already taken 30 goals this course and grabbed that tremendous offensive profuction, as well as the reliability of Keita (now substitute for the injured Fabinho ) and Van Dijk (not forgetting Allison , the goalkeeper ), walk right now as one of the most fearsome rivals in Europe.

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